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...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Odier has opted for a mesclun salad with delicate blush-pink strips of smoked trout from the lake, while I have sautéed foie gras, perched on a grilled piece of brioche....
...A nearby lake reminded him of his native Canada, and allowed him to indulge his boyhood love of fishing and canoeing....
...And there's a lot about it in our FT colleague Charles Glover's book about Eurasianism, Black Wind, White Snow, about the weird history books Patrushev reads....
...The last time Veronica and Cristina saw their father, Tomeu Vadell, was in late 2017, just before their annual Thanksgiving dinner in Lake Charles, Louisiana....
...And though I’ve never been much of a cardigan man — I’ve always found the close-cut, fine-gauge, V-front versions a bit Miami pensioner, while heavyweight shawl-collar cardigans, on the other hand, have...
...I have ordered a trout from Armenia’s Lake Sevan, a place of legendary beauty — and fine fish....
...Forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 because of “unacceptable democratic tendencies”, he is the author of several renowned Russian-language novels, including The Dead Lake, The Railway and The Underground,...
...Charles received the best rehabilitation money can buy....
...(Charles Renfro joined later, becoming a partner in 2004.)...
...Chabon’s observant, dexterous, up-from-the-streets grandfather recalls “Joe of Paterson” in EL Doctorow’s Loon Lake....
...The result is that the final paintings of the exhibition — their Madonnas and saints clothed in jewel-bright robes and framed by ultramarine skies and lakes — hark back to the world of Bellini and Titian...
...In the game of Monopoly, the place you go directly to is jail. Back to bee-keeping for a moment....
...In September 2013, China’s supreme court ruled that anyone who posts a message determined to be a “rumour” that is retweeted 500 times is liable for jail....
...He is a political conservative who rejects the theories of Charles Darwin and listens regularly to the rightwing radio commentator Rush Limbaugh....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Source: Sotheby’s International Realty Heart The Gurley Lake Ranch, near Norwood, Colorado, US. $975,900 A three-bedroom/3,500 sq ft ranch in 42 acres of ponderosa pine forest....
...Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One : Not For Turning, by Charles Moore, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 896 pages Published within weeks of Lady Thatcher’s death, Charles Moore’s biography is the...
...Sir Paul has given £5m to the V&A and £3m to the British Museum’s new medieval gallery....
...The heroes of India’s freedom struggle spent most of the war years in jail, refusing to endorse India’s involvement....
...After spending two months in jail, Polanski was granted house arrest at his residence in Gstaad, where he is still awaiting a decision over his appeals to fight extradition to the US....
...It is a journey that takes us back to a time before most of us were born, long before the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, and Brown v....
...Later, standing in the Palazzo’s forecourt, Morari told me that Federico and Charles V had played tennis here during the latter’s visit. “Can you imagine playing tennis with Charles V?”...
...Worth seeing were Rosemarie Trockel (“Less Sauvage than Others, Lake Aa”), two cuboids of dark-green yew coppice nestling by the artificial Aa Lake; Susan Philipsz’s beautiful sound installation “The Lost...
...The offending compound TCA, so strong that one teaspoon would be enough to contaminate Lake Constance, was first identified by a Swiss scientist in 1981....
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